Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 23:43:58 GMT From: Nik Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: docs/5797: [PATCH] List PRs that fix Y2K problems on Y2K web page Message-ID: <199802192343.XAA27686@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk>
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>Number: 5797
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: [PATCH] List PRs that fix Y2K problems on Y2K web page
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: change-request
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Thu Feb 19 15:51:17 PST 1998
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Nik Clayton
>Organization:
N/A
>Release: FreeBSD 2.2.5-STABLE i386
>Environment:
N/A
>Description:
Shortly after y2kbug web page was imported (and slightly cleaned up)
Stephen Roznowski <sjr@home.net> contacted me and suggested it would be
a good idea to list the PRs that fixed known Y2K problems with FreeBSD
on that page.
He just sent me a list of PRs and descriptions for fixed Y2K problems
in FreeBSD, and asked me to mark it up and submit it back to the project.
Hence this PR.
>How-To-Repeat:
N/A
>Fix:
Apply this patch:
Index: y2kbug.sgml
===================================================================
RCS file: /usr/local/cvs-reps/FreeBSD/www/data/y2kbug.sgml,v
retrieving revision 1.2
diff -c -r1.2 y2kbug.sgml
*** y2kbug.sgml 1998/02/12 04:52:30 1.2
--- y2kbug.sgml 1998/02/19 23:40:33
***************
*** 47,52 ****
--- 47,80 ----
1999 to 2000, and that it correctly interprets the year 2000 as a leap
year.</p>
+ <h2>Fixed problems</h2>
+
+ <p>The following Y2K problems have been identified and fixed in
+ FreeBSD.</p>
+
+ <dl>
+ <dt><a
+ href="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=1380">misc/1380</a></dt>;
+ <dd>Several programs have a hardcoded 19%d in responses for the year.
+ Affected programs include: yacc, ftpd, and make.</dd>
+
+ <dt><a
+ href="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=1382">conf/1382</a></dt>;
+ <dd>The sed script in /etc/rc.local that builds the host/kernel ID line
+ for the message of the day relies on the year not going past
+ 1999.</dd>
+
+ <dt><a
+ href="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=3465">misc/3465</a></dt>;
+ <dd>The etc/namedb/make-localhost command generates the DNS serial
+ number as YYMMDD. In the year 2000, this will be generated as
+ 1YYMMDD.</dd>
+
+ <dt><a
+ href="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=4930">gnu/4930</a></dt>;
+ <dd>groff tmac macros have hardcoded 19 for generating some dates.</dd>
+ </dl>
+
<h2>Problematic applications</h2>
<p>This section is currently a placeholder. As we become aware of
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